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From: wwn8108@tamsun.tamu.edu (Weldon Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Password Protection Program
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Date: 20 May 91 23:34:10 GMT
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               In my endless efforts to make a password protection program,
          I was given  some great advice on  how to sneak around  the reset
          sequence (  [ON] C).  I was  told to write  a program  to take  a
          password and then write it to a library with a configuration file
          that would attach it and then run it. The user key  that took the
          position of the [OFF] key was then assigned to the program in the
          library. Then, when one pushed the user key, the calculator would
          then turn off and  then ask for a password when  turned on again.
          And if the calculator was reset, the  config program would be run
          and it would re-attach itself  and run again. Therefore disabling
          the  reset  sequence as  a  solution around  my  password program
          right? WRONG! 

               I thought that  the scheme was beautiful but  when I finally
          tried it out, I learned  that I couldn't turn off the  calculator
          from a  library program. WHY  NOT?!?! Does anybody know?  It does
          turn itself  off but  it then  turns on  within a  second or  so.
          What's the deal? This one really has me reeling with disbelief.
               If you have any answers or comments, please respond to

                    wwn8108@tamsun.tamu.edu

               Thanks.

                  Trey Nash